Don’t miss out on the Franklin Fair’s Silent Auction! The auction is open for bidding and/or donations! This year we also included very generous toy packages from the Children’s Raffle along with items for everyone in your family The auction closes on Saturday at 9:00 p.m. sharp so you don’t want to miss out. Register and bid at www.franklin20.givesmart.com Show your Franklin spirit and support our students, teachers, and staff by helping make this year’s auction a success!

The PTO was proud to support an educational and enjoyable assembly this week – A Seat for Rosa. Thank you Stacie Collins for finding and coordinating the event. 

A very big thank you to Laura Heil, Donna Patel, Erica Malik, Elizabeth Somerlot, Susan Flannery Huffman and Ms. Stochaj for transforming FLIC into a fantastic Book Fair! If you were not able to make it or want to shop more, our online link is live until Wednesday, February 5th on the Fair website! A special thank you from the Book Fair co-chairs to everyone for another successful event this year! The children’s enthusiasm and excitement over the Fair and selecting books is always the best part! It was heartening to see the generosity of the students in selecting books for the CHOP drive. We also heard lots of great feedback about eWallet (the cashless way to pay). Thank you to parents for your support of your children’s love of reading, to parent volunteers who contributed their time and energy, to teachers and staff for their flexibility and a huge Thank You to Ms. Stochaj for her guidance, inspiration, hard work and letting us take over FLIC!  We hope everyone is enjoying reading all their new books! In addition, a special thank you from Annabelle O’Brien and Alex Gottstein for donating books to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia during this year’s Book Fair. Our generous Franklin community collected over 100 […]

HELP MAKE THE FRANKLIN FAIR AUCTION OUT OF THIS WORLD!   The Franklin Fair blasts off in just 82 days!   While our annual fair is a day of fun for our community, it is also our school’s largest fundraiser with the proceeds benefiting our children and their teachers. The majority of the funds raised come from the Silent Auction — the hottest auction in town! Each year, the hard working Auction Committee publishes a wish list of items and experiences needed for the auction. Please consider donating an item, or you can make a monetary donation and we’ll pick it up for you.   If you have an idea (perhaps you don’t want your ticket after-all to the International Space Station!), please reach out to Rana Barclay (ranabarclay@gmail.com).   Thank you for making this year’s auction OUT OF THIS WORLD! Silent Auction Wish List: www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0f44aca72ba7fd0-franklin

The Franklin School PTO will again be partnering with Alphabest for the Winter After School Enrichment program, which will start on Monday, February 24th. The attached flyer provides the class schedule, dates, descriptions of the offerings and grade levels for each class. Registration will open at noon on Monday, February 3rd at alphabestexplorations.com Please contact Leah Enthoven at enthovenleah@gmail.com or Rachel Callahan at rachelrcallahan@verizon.net with any questions. **Financial Aid is available. Information must be provided to Marta Napoles in the main office by Friday, January 31st.**

This Week!! Elephants, Tigers and Books, OH MY! at the Franklin Book Fair!    Wednesday, January 29th – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm  NEW – After-School Hours: Wednesday, January 29th – 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Evening Hours: Wednesday, January 29th – 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Thursday, January 30th – 9:00 am – 2:30 pm   Parents are welcome to help their kids shop during their classroom times either day and/or during the after-school (3:00-3:30 pm) and evening hours (6:30-8:30 pm) on Jan. 29. (You do not need to be signed up to “work” the Fair to join your student.) Please visit the Fair website for general information and to fund your child’s eWallet (a cashless way to pay). What is eWallet? The eWallet is a digital payment option for students. It gives students a secure, cash-free way to shop at the Fair. There is no charge to set up an eWallet. Parents simply create an account and authorize a spending limit on their credit card. You are only charged what your child spends up to that limit. The funds are available to use immediately. We can find your child’s eWallet by looking up their name in the checkout system (or from the bar code if you print the confirmation). And, of course, we still […]

Thank you to all fifteen Franklin students who submitted covers for our musical Playbill contest. All of the submissions were extremely creative and well done and showed a great amount of thought and effort. We were most impressed by how each design showed an individual interpretation of the show. This was the hardest year to make a decision! Congratulations to Kate Shin for her design which will be featured on the cover of the Playbill.    Come fly away with us (thank you Caroline Barbato for the great tagline!) on February 7th at 7:00 pm, February 8th at 5:00 pm or February 9th at 2:00 pm to Never Never Land to see Franklin’s production of Peter Pan JR.    $10 Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at either of these sites:   https://Franklinpeterpanjr.brownpapertickets.com https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4506500 Questions? Franklinelementarymusical@gmail.com

The Student Council will be holding a fundraiser to help the animals affected by the Australian wildfires.  All donations will go to the RSPCA of New South Wales.  All classroom teachers will be collecting donations from January 30th – February 6th.  During this one week time, any student that brings in any donation will be given a paper Australian animal.  They will write their names on the animal and the animal will be displayed on a bulletin board here at school.  The Student Council is excited to help the animals and is looking forward to a successful fundraiser.  Thank you in advance for your support!  

Annabelle O’Brien (former Franklin student) and Alex Gottstein (Franklin 5th grader) will be collecting newly purchased books from the Book Fair on January 29th and 30th to donate to pediatric cancer patients at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Just buy a book of your choice, sign your name on the provided gift tag sticker and place it in the donation box. All donations will be greatly appreciated! Your gifts will truly impact the lives of these children. Thank you!

Dear Franklin Parents: This year, Franklin is “host” to SEF’s Spring for Excellence on Friday, March 27th at the Summit Elks. It is SEF’s largest fundraiser of the year, and the money raised goes directly back into our Summit schools, as we have seen year after year in the grants awarded throughout the district. As the school host for the year, Franklin parents are responsible for organizing and running the event, from the Silent Auction to Food and Beverages to Music. We’ve already started to put together Committee Chairs for most of the major aspects of the event, but we need your help to round them out and provide as much support as possible – including that night! Please follow the Sign Up Genius link to see where you can make a difference: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B49ACA72CA0FC1-sefspring SEF KICK OFF EVENING To kick off planning for the event, we would like to invite you to Leah Enthoven’s house next Thursday, January 23rd at 7:30pm (14 Dorchester Road). Please consider attending to learn more about SEF and Spring for Excellence. SEF Board members will be there to answer any questions you have about SEF’s role in our schools. For questions about Spring for Excellence 2020 and […]

Attention 4th and 5th Grade Students! Your artistic talents are needed to design the poster for the Franklin School musical! Designs are due Wednesday, January 22nd (no exceptions).  Drawing Details: 1. Must be on white 8.5×11 paper, vertical positioning ONLY, leaving a BLANK one inch border around all four edges 2. Design can be anything you think represents the show but MUST include the title exactly as follows: PETER PAN Jr. 3. Design must include at the top, above artwork: “Franklin Elementary School presents” 4. Design must include somewhere the dates: February 7th, 8th, & 9th  *   Can use markers or colored pencils  (artwork will be printed in color) We will choose one lucky winner and turn your artwork into our publicity poster and playbill cover!!!  See the above logo for inspiration, but not for exact copying! 

  Thank you to SEF for the 5th Grade Furniture Grant! 

  Thank you to the members of the kindness crew at Franklin who ran a successful toy drive, and thank you to our Franklin community for donating over 100 toys.